[Children's & Illustrated] [Rackham, Arthur] Wagner, Richard The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie

London: William Heinemann/New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1910. First and limited edition, #4/1,150 numbered copies, signed by Rackham. 4to. (xii), (160) pp. Illustrated with color frontispiece and 33 color plates, all mounted and all with captioned tissue guards, and numerous in-text black and white illustrations. Translated from the German by Margaret Armour. Publisher's deluxe full vellum, decorated in gilt; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; silk ties wanting; light foxing to prelims; offsetting to tissue guards and pages opposite heavy brown paper; Latimore & Haskell, p. 37; Riall p. 103

Laid in is an announcement for The Leicester Galleries exhibition of Rackham’s original watercolors for his Wagner Ring cycle, held from October 15 to November 12, 1910.

The first part of Wagner's The Ring of the Niblung trilogy.

Provenance

From the Children’s and Illustrated Books Library of Nicholas Wedge, Ossining, New York